about 18 months ago, we acquired a fine danish cargobike and it has been a source of pleasure since. Besides allowing us to keep our normal way of moving around town with the small kid, there is mainly two reasons to praise this bike:

It is actually fun to ride. Compared to a three-wheeled cargo bike anyway, and with little or no cargo even compared to a normal bike. This is mostly due to the long wheelbase and a reduction in steering which give an uncompared cruise feeling.

At some point of owning a Bullit you might experience a growing ambition to transport larger, heavier and freakier goods. Rewards are looks by people passed by (which is a hard currency in Copenhagen’s streets, less so in the German countryside).

This post is about the second point. I present you some practical applications, collected by me [team bluebird] and my old man [team clockwork orange] :

Construction wood, front view

construction wood, rear view

low volume, high weight

firewood, small

firewood, large

space for more

transport your dragon

some plants

alu-box with wine-boxes

harvest from grandma’s garden

improvised baby transport

garden supplies

All the christmas presents going to the post in one box

self-built seat with 3 point belt

express travel unit

Stones & a flower

taking a break on a three weeks journey

children capacity at least 2

Children’s bed from Ikea.

Transporting people

foldable bed frame

I look forward to taking the challenge further next summer. Meanwhile, have a video of the early standard application:

I was cykling down R-gade towards Å-gade. The car pulled up onto R-gade behind me (probably from B-gade) with screaming tyres and passed me by with only a few centimeters distance. In my surprise I reacted with a single knock on the back part of the car.

The driver then stopped the car somewhere close to or even on the pedestrian crossing ahead of me and I continued to pass it on the right side. When I had almost passed the standing car, the driver accelerated the car shortly and turned it to the right, hitting my bike. I jumped/fell/stepped off the bike away from the car. The car then immediately continued down R-gade.

I read out loud the license plate of the leaving car to remember, got my phone out and texted the number to my wife. A few people who witnessed the incident came to see if I was alright and offered their help. Two of them gave me their telephone numbers/names.

Aside from a small scratch mark, I have not noticed any injuries.

Immediately after the incident I thought that perhaps me knocking – or better said kicking – the car was too much of a provocation. But after thinking about it, I don’t think it was, and surely the reaction was in no way proportionate. I will continue doing so with cars passing by too close (which luckily is very rare around here). It is the only way I can think of to get a driver’s attention in their nearly sound proof cell.

Strange enough though this is not the first time (but far the most extreme) I notice a driver getting really upset about this. A close family member also recently became the aim of a bottle thrown out of a car window for doing it.

Also, I am really curious about the juristic/legal severity of the driver’s action in my case.